Overall Green alert Flood for Malaysia
in Malaysia

Flood impact summary

Flood Malaysia is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1100282
Deaths: 2
Displaced: 17278
Region: Kelantan, Terengganu, Pasir Puteh, Tumpat
Countries: Malaysia
From - To 27 Nov - 27 Nov
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 27-11-2019

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 1 Malaysia Pasir Puteh
death 1 Malaysia Tumpat
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
displaced 11278 Malaysia Kelantan
displaced 6000 Malaysia Terengganu

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2019-11-20 / 2019-12-04  

Wednesday 20/11Thursday 21/11Friday 22/11Saturday 23/11Sunday 24/11Monday 25/11Tuesday 26/11Wednesday 27/11Thursday 28/11Friday 29/11Saturday 30/11Sunday 01/12Monday 02/12Tuesday 03/12Wednesday 04/12

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 2 deaths and 17278 displaced 27 Nov 2019 27 Nov 2019 GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.